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Local and X-Ray Clinic The Chest X-ray clinic at Sacred Heart hospital will .be open Thurs day, Feb. 13, from 2 to 5 p.m., according to the Jackson County Public Health associa- To Meeting Curtis L. Hopkins and Wayne H. Saf ley, Medford representatives of the Etna Life Insurance company, will attend a reg ional training seminar on the role of life insurance in estate conservation beginning Mon day. . To Speak Movies of a southern African mission field will be shown at 7:30 p.m. to day by the Rev. and Mrs. Floyd J. Perkins, former val ley residents, at the First Churcn of the Nazarene, 520 North Holly st. The Perkins have spent five years in Africa where Mr. Perkins is principal of Nazarene Bible College of South Africa at Potchefstroom. They will re turn to Africa in December. SfllDER'S y2 y2 Rich Table Cream BUDGET PRICED New 1958 GENERAL ELECTRIC SWOVEL-TOP DOOBIE-ACTION tovfo" t"" " CIEANING UNIT I s gwrvtl top I. - Om tool choM rvo oad floot Aaa attacha,,. f -i Po4 G.wal Eloctric oor nomink fcco, I Sim Y'" womy fT"" xl. l Terns Lw7;f S&f CCNERAL ELECTRIC Floor Polisher vfuwsniBX yWX US Personal Gas Stolen Jackson coun ty sheriffs officers are inves tigating the theft of gas re cently from trucks parked at the Union Oil company bulk plant at Clay st. and High way 66. Team Meets The drill team for Olive Rebecca lodge will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. for practice. All mem bers are asked to attend. School of Instruction will not be held. To Speak Keegan Toun send, president of the Allied Veterans Council, and other veterans organization repre sentatives will speak to mem bers of the Camp White Domi ciliary on subjects pertinent to veterans benefits and vet erans relatives benefits. The meeting will be held at 7:20 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 13. Flue Fires Firemen were summoned to a flue fire at the home of Niles R. Smith, 316 South Groveland ave., about 5:20 p.m. yesterday. Another flue fire was report ed on Pioneer rd. Firemen returned to the station when it was learned that the ad dress was beyond the rural fire district boundary. Visit Paper Nine mem bers of Brownie Troop 183 of the Roosevelt fourth grade visited the Mail Tribune yes terday. They inspected the newsroom, circulation depart ment and watched the vari ous steps in turning out a newspaper in ' the printing department. Those making the tour were Claudia Potts, Sandra Vowell, Deborah Ra der, Fredia Goltz, Cheryl Nat wick, Suzette Rue, Sheryl Vaughn, Judy Fogelquistan. They were accompanied by Mrs. Glen Rader and Tommy Donahue. Births KELSOE To: Mr. and Mrs. David W., route 3, box 172, Medford, Feb. 10. 1958, a girl, 8V4 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. DENIKEN To: Mr. and Mrs. Robert, 221 Bigham dr., Central Point, Feb. 10, 1958, a boy, 6 pounds, at Sacred Heart ..hospital. JOHNSON Jr., To Mr. and Mrs. George E., 240 Orange St., Ashland, Feb. 11, 1958, a girl, 6 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. JOHNSON To: Mr. and Mrs. William W., 580 South Mountain ave., Ashland, Feb. 11, 1958, a boy, 7V2 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. Includes extra parts and brushes tftfXAl tC7XC DEALER. EAST MAIN -MEDFORD Iff I - i4mfi mfjf IN PLAY Medford High school seniors are seen here rehearsing "Father of the Bride." io be presented Feb. 13 and 14 at the high school auditorium. Cast in the de lightful comedy which has amused thous ands of American playgoers are (left to Calendar Calendar notices and news for the society section of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 p.m. Friday. Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 a.m. of the day of publication and for week day news is 9 p.m. the day before publication. Wednesday: 7 p.m. : Jackson county medical auxiliary, home of Mrs. B. B. Bartels, 35 Valley View rd. 7:30 p.m. Executive com mittee, Women Moose, Lodge hall. 7:30 p.m. Medford chap ter, Oregon United Nations as sociation, Girls Community club. 7:30 p.m. Roxy Ann Gem and Mineral club, Redman hall. 8 p.m. Women Moose, Lodge hall. Thursday: 10:30 a.m. Howard Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. W. W. Claypool, 2722 Bullock rd. 12 noon Congregational Women's fellowship, at church. 12 noon Phoenix Thurs day club, with Mrs. George Bourne, 3825 Calhoun rd. 12:30 p.m. Junior Service League fashion show, Rogue Valley Country club. 12:30 p.m. Medford So journers, Oirls community club. 12:30 p.m. Social club, Adarel chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Jacksonville Ma sonic hall. 12:30 p.m. VFW auxiliary Sewing club, home of Mrs. I. D. Canfield, Coleman Creek rd. 1 p.m. Upper Rogue Grange Home Economics club, home of Mrs. Herb Carlton. Portland Youth Auto Wreck Victim Forest Grove, Ore. (IF) Charles Lee Beehrle, 18, Port land, was killed Tuesday as the car he was driving skid ded into a bridge abutment after passing a truck near the Banks junction on the Sunset highway. The truck collided with the car a mo ment later. Ronald Goddard, 18, also of Portland and a passenger in Be"ehrle's auto, was treated for minor injuries and shock. Driver of the - truck, Neil Richard Herglund, 38, Astor ia, escaped injury. Police said the accident oc curred on wet pavement. The impact threw auto parts as far as 100 feet, they said. COURT RECORDS DISTRICT COURT Delmer L. Hackworth, defective brakes, S6. Paul D. Le Clair, driving with out lights, $6. Chester Eugene Brown, no oper ator's lcense. S10. Gene C. Flickinger, no registra tion certificate. $6. Jean B. Rambo, failure to stop at stop sign. S10. Alfred E. Bowman, drunk on a public highway. $30. Arthur ft. Brown, illegal posses sion of venison, $103. Sidney Jones, failure to display license plates, $10. Richard R. Ragan, insufficient binder chains. $10. Samuel J. Morehouse, overwidth, $15. Andy J. Road, failure to dim lights. $10. George C. Moore, violation of ba sic rule. $15. Ralph B. Guches, violation of ba sic rule. $15. Robert James Lyons, failure to comply with driving restrictions, 56 Curtis E. Mason, failure to oper ate on the right side of the road, $10. Carl W. Jarnigan, driving with out lights, S26. William M. Mill, illegal posses sion of venison, S105. Clinton D. Horton, illegally changing lanes. $10. Joann Jamison, violation of basic rule, $15. CIRCCIT COIRT Mary M. Means vs. Means, divorce decree Lawrence David Hawn vs Rita Hawn, di- vcrce decree. Ruanita Y. Guile vs. Duke M. Guile, divorce decree. Alma P. Sequin vs. Edward Ron ald Sequin, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Arnold Rodney Dillon. Central Point, and Nancy Lou Arant, Med ford. Perry Leonard Hulse and Myrtle Clarissa Peterson, both of Jackson ville. . . linger Submits High Bid on FS Timber Emil M. Unger, Medford, was high bidder on 800,000 board feet of timber west of Fish lake in one of three sales of Rogue River National for est timber yesterday. About 1,670,000 board feet were sold at an oral auction on three tracts. Interest was keen but bidding was erratic, forest service officials noted. Unger bid $34.25 per thous and on douglas fir, $23.50 on western white pine, and $3.50 on white fir and other species for a total bid value of $23. 085. The ' appraised and ad vertised price was $10,665. The contract included re- Former Ashland Man Sentenced to Alabama Jail Frank J. Simpson, 32, for merly of Ashland, pleaded guilty last month in federal court in Birmingham, Ala., to an indictment charging him with unlawfully cutting and removing standing timber from lands of the Rogue River National forest on May 14, 1954, according to infor mation received recently by District Forest Ranger Harold Thomas, Ashland. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail. Arrested in Ashland Simpson was arrested in Ashland in September, 1954, and released on $500 bail aft er preliminary hearing be fore U.S. Commissioner Frank A. Van Dyke. Evidence in the case was secured by Thomas, who reported that Simpson had cut and re moved timber from federal land in the Dead Indian area. The case was scheduled for trial in August, 1955, but ac tion was postponed on a de fense claim of a technical defect in the indictment. Simpson was reindicted in December, 1955, while free on bail. He was not located by the federal bureau of in vestigation until recently. Thomas said he did not have information on where or how the FBI finally appre hended Simpson in Alabama. Ashland Home Destroyed by Fire Ashland The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Van De Walker burned to the ground last night on 100 Upper Drive, Ashland, the Ashland fire de partment reported today. Firemen said the house, fanned by high winds, was ablaze when they arrived with two trucks. There was noth ing could be done to save the house or the family's posses sions, a department spokes man said. Van De Walker was attend ing church and the family was all in bed when the fire broke out, according to C. A. Van De Walker, Hugh Van De Walker's father. The family, mother and two youngsters, just managed to escape the wood frame house, lie said. Possible cause was defective heating equipment, a wood stove in the half basement under the house, C. A. Van De Walker said. The house and its contents were partially in sured, he added. Meanwhile, the son and his family are living with his par ents and may move into an apartment which the senior Van De Walkers own in Ash land. Hugh Van De Walker works at the Steve Wilson company mill in Ashland as a loader. right) Jim Corum as Mr. Banks, Bob Gee as Mr. Massoula; Sue Johnston as Mrs. Banks and Milton Smith as Joe. In the background are Dick Rankin and Lynn Seger. Mrs. Lenore Zapell. instructor in English and drama, is directing the play. construction and surfacing with cinder a three-fourths mile of forest road within the sale area. Forest service offi cials estimated the cost of the road at $4,627. ' Other bids for the 800,000 board feet included Elder Logging, Shady Cove; J. C. Mathews, Ashland; G and R Logging, Medford; Cliff Green, Central Point; Gordon Pickell, Ashland; (Francis Brown, Ft. Klamath; Arnold Ragsdale, Trail; James Van derlip, Shady Cove; Lyle Russell, Central Point; and A and H. Logging, Medford. Francis Brown of Ft. Klam ath was high bidder on 600, 000 board feet of douglas and white fir in an area to be cleat cut waste of Big Elk guard station near Fish lake. Brown's bid was $25.05 per thousand for douglas fir, and $15.05 for white fir. Total value of the bid was $11,630. Appraised value was $7,458. 16 Qualify for Bidding Next highest bidder was Southern Oregon. Plywood. A total of 16 individuals or firms qualified for oral bid ding. Lyle Russell was high bid der for 270,000 board feet of timber near the Deadwood Big Elk rd. junction. The bid was $21.35 for douglas fir and pine and $8.10 for white fir and others. Total bid value was $3,909.50 compared to an aprpaised value of $3,902.50. Fourteen bidders submitted sealed bids at the advertised price, the forest service said. Feature Article On Fair Published A feature article on the Southern Oregon safety fair, which was held Nov. 17 in Medford, appears in the Feb ruary issue of the National Safety News magazine. The story, written by Russ Jamison, Medford, is entitled "Safety Goes to The Fair." It relates the planning and production necessary to stage the fair, the first of it's kind held in the country. Many Southern Oregon organiza tions and individuals are mentioned in the article, for the part they played in the event. The magazine, published in Chicago by the National Safe ty Council, is distributed to the more than 38,000 mem bers of the organization all over the United States. Jamison, secretary and pub lic relations counsel for the Medford Safety Council, ser ved on the planning commit tee of the Southern Oregon Safety Fair and directed the publicity activities. Brophy Reelected Y Board President Carl Brophy was reelected president of the Young Men's Christian association board of directors yesterday. Other officers are Jim Ro wan, first Vice president; Jay Pierce, second vice president; S. V. McQueen, treasurer, and Mrs. "Virginia . Wickersham, secretary. Elected trustees were Low ell Chamberlin, Walt Garner, Glenn Jennings, and Ray Of ford. i In other board action, dele gates to the northwest area YMCA council in Eugene, March 7, 8 and 9, were named. They are Jennings, C. E. Chamberlain, Garner, Larry Clark, Mrs. Virginia Wicker sham, Brophy, Lowell Cham berlain and Offord. - -. , Stock Market Lower In Moderate Trading New York W) Oils, chem icals and special issues led the stock market lower today in moderate trading. . Losses of a point or more dotted the main list as the market suffered its sixth straight decline. . The oils were under pres sure. This industry has been plagued by a serious oversup ply situation and a weakening price structure. Gulf Oil was down 2V4 at its worst and at a new low. It regained around a point of the loss. Alcoa and Kennecott were off more than a point each in the metals. Allied and Du Pont duplicated in the chem icals. International Salt fea tured the specialties with a loss of more than four points at its low. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 753.i American Can 42Vi AT&T ...172 Anaconda Copper 42 Bethlehem Steel 383,4 Caterpillar Corp. 614 Chrysler Corp 53 Continental Can . 42Vs Crown Zellerbach 45V& Curtiss Wright 2418 Du Pont 181 Eastman Kodak 102 General ' Electric 6H4 General Foods 544 General Motors ............ 34 Georgia Pacific 2934 Graham Paige ... .. 1V& Homestake Mining 37 Kaiser Fraser 8 Obituaries MRS. IRENE MORAN Private funeral services for Mrs.' Irene May Moran, who died Monday, will be held Thursday, Feb. 13, at 10:30 a.m. at Perl Funeral home. The Rev. John Ilg of Sacred Heart Catholic church will officiate. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Mrs. Moran was born April 4, 1897, in Anaconda, British Columbia. She mar ried Ray F. Moran, Dec. 4 1913, at Greenwood, B. C, and moved to Spokane, Wash. the same year. They came to Medford in 1951 where they lived until 1936, when they moved to Portland. She had made her home in Mollala, Ore., since 1945. She was a member of the Roman Catholic church. Survivors include her hus band, and three children, Pat Moran, Mollala; Mrs. Peggy Walker, and Mrs. Lois Lar- kin, both Areata, Calif. Pallbearers will be Elbert Coleman, Stanley Sherwood, Clark Walker, Raymond Fur ry, Donald Lawrence, and Al Bilhousen. EDITH ALMA ULSTAD Mrs. Edith Alma Ulstad, 63, of 222 South Ivy st., died in a local hospital this morn ing. ' Funeral ' arrangements will be announced by Conger Morris Funeral home. WILLIAM A. McCORD , Funeral services for Wil lam Andrew McCord, 85, of 402 Clark St., who died Tues day will be held at Conger Morris at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev. Loyce C. Carver, of the Apostolic Faith church, will officiate. Committal will be in Memory Gardens park. Mr. McCord was born June 22, 1872, in Boscobel, Wis. On Aug. 28, 1911, in Medora, S.D. he was married to Ethel May Keller, who survives. He was a member of th Apostolic Faith church of Medford. Other survivors Include one son, Sgt. William A. Mc Cord, Tachikawa, AFB, Japan; two daughters, Mrs. Lorna Walters, Wauzeka, Wis., and SSgt. Millie E. McCord, McClellan AFB, Sac ramento, Calif.; one brother, Edwin McCord, Ekalaka, Mont., and several grand children. ENJOY CHARCOAL BROILED FOODS You Can Put in the Bank! Silver Dollar Trading Stamps Wednesdsr. Febmirf It, 1957 Kennecott Copper 79 Lockheed Aircraft 4 Hi Katy Pfd. .. 343i Montgomery Ward 323i New York Central 14Ts Penney, J. C. 89 Penn RR 5 2 '4 Radio Corporation 33i Richfield Oil 59 Sears 26 Socony Vacuum 45 V4 Southern Co 27 Southern Pacific .'. 37'i Standard California 44 Vfc Standard Indiana 3614 Standard N. J 49 U Sun Mines Texas Gulf Transamerican 36 Trans West Air 12 Tri-Continental 29 V4 Texas Pac Land Trust 7 Union Carbide 1 90Vfe Union Pacific 2614 United Aircraft 53 U U. A. L 26 U. S. Rubber 33V& U. S. Steel 55 Youngstown S & T 79 Portland Produce . Portland (UrP.) Eees To re tailers: Grade AA large. 42-44c doz.; A large, 38-40c; AA medium, 37 38c; A medium, 35-37c, carton ,1 -3c additional. ... Butter To Tetailers: AA ana A rrade prints. 68-69c lb.; carton, lc b. higher; B prints, 65-66C. rhppw medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single dai sies, 40-Slc, 5-10. loaves, oi-j-ofc; jrocessea American cneese, a-iu. oaf, 41'j-44c. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers as ranch No. 1 quality fryers, 234-4 lbs., 21c lb.; ngnt nens, iu llr lh . ranch: heavy hens, 5 lbs. up. nominally 18-19c lb.; old roost ers, 7-8c lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers. Fryers, whole drawn, 40-44c lb., cut up, 45-ac; hens, lieht tvDe. cut up, 34-36c: heavy type, whole 4rawn, 40-45C lb. Rabbits (Average to growers, fob killine nlants). live white. 31.43; lbs., f.o.b. Portland, 22-25c lb.- colored pelts, 4c unaer. tresn killed fryers to retailes, 59-61C lb.; cut up, 6Z-65C 10. Portland Hay, Grain PntlanH Wholesale Hav Prices New crop. No. 2 green alfalfa baled f.o.b. Portland. $24-25 a ton. Wholesale prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white. S76 ton; No. 2 white oats, 38Jb. West Coast delivery. S49.50 ton; no. z vane white oats. S48 ton: soybean meal $75 ton, f.o.b. Portland; barle No. 2 West Coast delivery, $47.30 ton; standard mill run, prompt ceiiv erv. nominally $41-42 ton f.o.b Portland: No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment, f.o.b. Portland, dj-oj.ou Daily Weather Report FORECASTS MHfnrd and vicinity: Partial clearing with valley fog tonight and Mrlv Thursday mornine. Increas ing cloudiness during day Thurs day. Rain by afternoon or evening. Cooler tonight with low 35. High Thursday 50. Western Oregon: Showery with some partial clearing tonight. Part ly cloudy Thursday morning. In creasing cloudiness during day. Rain likely by evening. Low to night 38-48. High Thursday 50-80. Northern California: Partly cloudy tonight. Cloudy Thursday with in termittent rain. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 46; above normal 4. Record high this date 68 in 1931. Record low-ihis date 18 in 1948. PRECIPITATION: . 24 hours to midnight .34 inch. Midnight to 10 a.m., .44 inch. Total this month .93 Inch, .10 inch above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 15.20 Inches, 3.50 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 60, highest this a.m. 99. High 4:06 24- Clty Tester- a.m. hr. day Low Prec. Brookings 55 53 2.26 Crater Lake 32 26 1.97 Granti Pass 48 44 .77 Klamath Falls 43 39 .30 MEDFORD 54 42 .61 Portland - 51 43 .57 Seattle 55 44 36 33 .42 Snokane 47 Yakima 47 .46 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles .... 59 54 59 59 70 56 1.77 50 .58 54 .59 56 .61 52 Phoenix . 70 38 12 75 28 35 43 15 7 60 23 15 Denver . .29 T .01 Chicago Miami New York Washigton, D.C. FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Thruogh Feb. 17): Western Oregon - Western Wash ington Recurring precipitation. Western Oregon amounts moderate, averaging .25 to .75 of an inch in interior, 1 to 1.5 Inches on coast. Western Washington precipitation light. Temperatures averaging above norm. Highs 52-62. Lows 35-45. Northern California Recurrent rains. Snow in mountains. Temper atures near normal. Dead Line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day. except 10 a.m. for Monday; for Sunday, noon Saturday. GENUINE in the CANDLE ROOM at the Medford Hotel CHILDREN WELCOME 5:30-12 p.m. Daily 2-10 p.m. Sunday FREE Silver Dollars THE ONLY TRADING STAMP MEDFORD (OREGON) Horticulturist to Receive Award Here Highlight of the pear grow ers meeting tomorrow in the Jackson county courthouse will be presentation of the Wilder medal to Henry Hart man, horticulturist of Oregon State college. The meeting starts at 1:15 p.m. with answers to a "ques tion box." Other features of the pro gram will be a discussion of pear "decline" by Dr. S. B. Apple, head of the depart ment of horticulture, Oregon State college. Professor Hartman will dis cuss controlled atmosphere storage. He will give the ppp ularized aspect and tell what it means to the fruit Industry. Work in Industry Hartman was working with the pear industry in this area to study the marketing prob lems in 1929. From this work developed the Hartman wrap, specially treated wrap to protect the fruit against stor age diseases. It still is being used. His early work on th re search of eastern markets and the economics of pear sales developed procedures still in use today. They include meth ods of storage, handling and ripening procedures. Probab ly the most signficant contri bution, however, was the de velopment of the Hartman wrap which has saved the in dustry thousands of dollars, Hartman will be honored by the directors of the Med ford Pear Shippers association and the Jackson County Fruit Growers League with a din ner given in his honor to morrow night at the Rogue Valley Country club. Irrigation Specialist Marvin Shearer, Irrigation specialist, Oregon State col lege, will talk on some of Portland Livestock Portland (UJ.) Cattl 859. Average choice steera 26; ether choice steers 25.25-25.75; good steers 24-25; mixed good-choice fed heifers 23.50; standard heifer 20 21.50; utility-commercial cows 16.50-20; canners-cutters 12.50-15. Calves 50. Choice vealers 29-32; high choice 32.50-33; good 26-29; good-choice slaughter calves 22-25. Hogs 250. Sorted 1 and 2 butchers 22.50-22.75; mixed 21.50-22.25; sows 300-500 lb. 16-20. Sheep 200. Choice wooled slaugh ter lambs 23.50. (Hsssmm STARTING TONIGHT ADVANCE ROAD SHOW ENGAGEMENT! otter votrvr ' swot SAronumA j rOCTVE SEEM THE OREATZSTt TWO SHOWS TONITE nitr o DOORS OPEN 6:30 IH IS IS Ftotureu 7:20 and 10:00 P.M.: AND AN EXQUISITE NEW ' j JAPANESE STAR IN i I '-aM v.:m m 11 r 4iV fslmti m ?333HA&3AaMr TtCHHICOLOS pnstuM by fiWrt ftft ea-mtiiM PATRICIA OWENS RED BUTTONS RICARDO MONTALBJ&i UARTUA SCOTT UiYOSHI UUEKI PR00BC0 &T 0IRECTE0 1 U m .. MIVU 111 lLBrJAMESJLMiCHEra MAIL TRIBUNE -ELK V f.JI 1 the problems involved in in dividual orchards with irriga tion and drainage. C. B. Cordy, Jackson coun ty horticulture agent, will talk on pear blight A discussion on pest con trol in relation to local prob lems will be given by L. G. Gentner, entomologist . with the Southern Oregon branch experiment station. His talk will include explanation of the newest methods of control of San Jose scale, mites and psylla. Don Berry, county horticul ture agent, will explain the spray schedule set up for thia year. Shelby Tuttle, manager ol Southern Oregon Shippers, will conclude the program by presenting the Wilder medal to Hartman. LIFE COM MAGAZINE COMMENDED MOfl DESIR In A Recent Articl For Our PRIME RIBS OPEN EVERY EVENING Except Monday Phi NO 4-2513 TONIGHT ONLY! "CURTAIN AT 8:30" THE FILM i THAT SHOCKED THREE CONTINENTS ADULTS ONLY JAMES CARVE o nooucK 8T MIIK0TAK1 H JN IW1KS BERU1 nm mam ttmn put bt i adult r lfV DA H nODADU rrt